by John Foliot, Jim Allen and Jeanne Spellman
Location: Randle A
Video and player accessibility is changing rapidly. Standards are in flux and hotly debated. Learn the latest issues in accessible video and user agents.
Jim Allan
Texas School for the Blind
John Foliot
Stanford University
Jeanne Spellman
World Wide Web Consortium/Web Accessibility Initiative
by Jennison Asuncion and Andres Gonzalez
PDF portfolios are collections of documents and multimedia files packaged as a single PDF. Latest Adobe Acrobat makes portfolios more accessible to assistive
technology users.
by Jeffrey P. Bigham and Pierre Garrigues
This presentation will overview the VizWiz and oMoby accessible mobile applications that use human-powered and automatic approaches to enable blind people
to answer visual questions.
by ted_drake
by ted_drake
The Yahoo! Prototype Team and Accessibility Lab have created an onscreen keyboard tool that significantly enhances the browsing experience for single switch users. The keyboard dynamically creates a series of hotlinks for web pages. We'll be demonstrating this tool and describing how and why it was developed.
by Jennison Asuncion, patrick timony and John F Croston III
Presenters will: describe the BarCamp/unconference format, provide first-hand knowledge and experience holding accessibility focused events using this approach,
and share outcomes, including participant feedback.
Presenters will: describe the BarCamp/unconference format, provide first-hand knowledge and experience holding accessibility focused events using this approach,
and share outcomes, including participant feedback.
by James Bailey
Many college AT programs have grown spontaneously and reactively. This presentation explains how to organize a uniform policy from disconnected and seemingly unrelated AT services.
by Kel Smith
The term "digital outcasts" describes users with disabilities left behind as technology advances. This presentation will explore barrier-free emerging technologies
within the health care sector.
by Lisa Barnett, Wes Dillon, Preety Kumar, Sharron Rush and Elle Waters
Humana's Accessibility team will relay the challenges they faced instituting web accessibility across a Fortune 100 company. The team will share successes
and lessons learned.
by Joseph Karr O'Connor, Pratik Patel and Kimon Rethis
How California State University, Northridge, is implementing Drupal, the Web Content Management System, with help from the greater Drupal accessibility
community.
PDF supports accessibility, but why aren’t more files accessible? The answer lies in an optimized conversion process. Learn how to ensure the best results.
by John Foliot, Steve Faulkner, Richard Schwerdtfeger and Cynthia Shelly
Location: America's Cup D
HTML 5 is becoming an application convergence platform. A panel of accessibility experts, working on HTML 5, will discuss the state of HTML 5 accessibility.
Richard Schwerdtfeger
IBM
Steve Faulkner
TPG
John Foliot
Stanford University
Cynthia Shelly
Microsoft
by Joseph Karr O'Connor and Glenda Watson Hyatt
Two AAC case studies contrast and compare the use of cheap tools, and expensive tools, and why there are uses for both.
by John Foliot, Jennison Asuncion, Jared Smith and Sandi Wassmer
This panel will provide a discussion of current web accessibility efforts, whether they are effective or not, and how they can be improved.
by ted_drake and Dirk Ginader
Yahoo! Finance, the largest financial site, features accessible tools to control your finances. Learn how to use these tools and what makes them accessible.
DISTCHA: an attempt to kill CAPTCHA
Using CAPTCHAs has always been difficult, if not impossible. What if there was a truly secure, accessible, device-independent solution to replace them?